Qualification: B.A. and PhD in Medicine and Surgery.
Current position and Institution: Chief of the Social and Health Research and Information Unit (UISYS Group). Professor. Department of History of Science and Information Science. School of Medicine and Dentistry. University of Valencia.
Research lines: Studies of addictive disorders; Epidemiological studies; Bibliometric studies; Data sharing; Evaluation of scientific activity.
Brief curricular review: He has been the medical chief of an Alcoholology Unit,and has collaborated with the Foundation for Drug Addiction Assistance and the Foundation for the Study of Prevention and Assistance to Drug Dependencies of the Valencian Community. He is a member of national and international scientific societies on drug dependence. His main lines of work focus on drug dependence studies and the evaluation of research and scientific publications. He has directed 11 doctoral theses and has participated in more than 50 competitive research projects or contracts in the aforementioned lines. He has published more than 180 articles and book chapters, a good part of them in journals with an impact factor in the area of substance abuse knowledge, such as Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Addiction, Addictive Behaviors, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Addictions ... and of bibliometric studies, such as Scientometrics, Journal of Reporttrics, JASIS…
Juan.Valderrama@uv.es